"This book provides a political biography of Prince George E. L'vov, the first prime minister of Russia after the fall of the Romanovs. The author uses the career of Prince L'vov to examine the development of liberalism and the advent of a civil society in late Imperial Russia."--Provided by publisher The Zemstvo and Russian liberalism -- The "small, victorious war" and the first Russian Revolution -- Russia's "forgotten decade": the Zemstvo, politics, and the emergence of civil society -- Russia's liberal experiment -- Russian liberalism in crisis -- The Zemstvo and liberalism in Russia's Great War -- The failure of russian liberalism | 
